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women like michelle obama and oprah. then i made an appearance to open the show. >> see, this is going to be a great party. >> good evening. i'm the reverend al sharpton. [ applause ] what have we learned from this sketch? as usual, nothing. live from new york it's saturday night! >> so now rather than duck the issue that had been brought up by some about its cast, dealt with it head on and promised to rectify it. for that i'll show up live any night. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> something borrowed. let's play "hardball." ♪ >>. >>> good evening. i'm chris meatthews up in new york. let me start with this. tea for two. rand paul refuses to admit it. it's about plagiarism. he has been accused of taking words, large numbers of words, from other sources. he wrote a book but puts his name to the book more than 1300 of them that came from a heritage foundation report. it took a search engine to discover this. once discovered, it's the fact he has to defend and refuse he did what he di
women like michelle obama and oprah. then i made an appearance to open the show. >> see, this is going to be a great party. >> good evening. i'm the reverend al sharpton. [ applause ] what have we learned from this sketch? as usual, nothing. live from new york it's saturday night! >> so now rather than duck the issue that had been brought up by some about its cast, dealt with it head on and promised to rectify it. for that i'll show up live any night. thanks for watching. i'm...
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the obama people's attitude toward that was this re-election is only about barack obama. you won't have a political future if we don't win. so you need to focus on, there are no side deals here. you need to focus on what's getting the president elected. >> i think he's still running for president. i think he'll decide long before hilly decides. mitt romney was asked on meet the press about what you reported. here he is responding to your great reportage. >> i know the vetting people who went through that analysis and put together their report laid everything out, but frankly there wasn't anything they put out that wasn't already part of the public record and hasn't been dealt with by chris christie. there was nothing new there. chris could easily become our nominee and save our party and help get this nation on the right track again. they don't come better than chris christie. >> don't you love leave time. howard knows how this works. by the time you got all that stuff you got about his vetting failures in the book, this guy has seen christie rise in the polls. he seems t
the obama people's attitude toward that was this re-election is only about barack obama. you won't have a political future if we don't win. so you need to focus on, there are no side deals here. you need to focus on what's getting the president elected. >> i think he's still running for president. i think he'll decide long before hilly decides. mitt romney was asked on meet the press about what you reported. here he is responding to your great reportage. >> i know the vetting people...
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cruz said that president obama is abusing his power. >> you think president obama has been abusing his power? >> i think he has absolutely been abusing his power. and when you have a president that says regardless of whether congress acts, i'm going to force my agenda on the american people, that's wrong. >> alex and kathleen thank you for joining us. these remarks are powerful. i'm wondering what we can point to or he has pointed to that suggests obama who was able to pass review with the supreme court for his most important bit of legislation has abused his power. where is the abuse apparent to mr. cruz? >> that's that new yorker piece that you pointed out, chris, as a great piece of writing. and one of the comparisons that david denby makes is that obama care is his communism. it is the thing that animates everything he says. i think in some way because the president is trying to help the poor, the disenfranchised, ted cruz has flipped that and made it somehow a repression of democracy. the fact that the president was willing to use whatever levers he could to reopen the government
cruz said that president obama is abusing his power. >> you think president obama has been abusing his power? >> i think he has absolutely been abusing his power. and when you have a president that says regardless of whether congress acts, i'm going to force my agenda on the american people, that's wrong. >> alex and kathleen thank you for joining us. these remarks are powerful. i'm wondering what we can point to or he has pointed to that suggests obama who was able to pass...
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not obama care. maybe they would have been more reasonable in working with you on that then. >> that's very interesting and very important point. >> take a look at this, congressman. speaker john boehner brought the economy to the brink by taking us to the edge of a default. yet today he told reporters that the gop's fight against the aca, the affordable care act, is really about growing the economy. that's his concern. let's take a listen. >> obama care is like a wet blanket over our economy. american people are looking for more jobs, better wages. but with all the uncertainty around this law, employers are having a very difficult time making decisions. it's time to delay this. it's time to fix this before it gets any worse. >> you know, congressman, hold your ears, but i said a comment -- i used a comment i don't usually use. what do these guys want obama to do? he's talking about a wet blanket. this guy is killing our enemies the way w couldn't with his rooting tooting gi joe talk. this president
not obama care. maybe they would have been more reasonable in working with you on that then. >> that's very interesting and very important point. >> take a look at this, congressman. speaker john boehner brought the economy to the brink by taking us to the edge of a default. yet today he told reporters that the gop's fight against the aca, the affordable care act, is really about growing the economy. that's his concern. let's take a listen. >> obama care is like a wet blanket...
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we need to send barack obama back to chicago. i'd like to send him back to kenya, back to indonesia. >> according to the senior cruz, president obama is a marxist. let's watch this. >> we have to unmask this man. this is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of god. i tell you what. this is classical marxist philosophy. karl marx very clearly said it. marxism requires we destroy god because government must become god. >> senator cruz's office told mother jones quote, pastor cruz does not speak for the senator. but in fact he often does as a surrogate put out by his son. rafael cruz is just more than a senator's father as the national review put it ted cruz has used him as a confidant, a stand-in, and a special envoy. he has sway in his son's inner circle that makes him a power broker. he uses his father for the kind of guidance you'd expect from a consultant. as ted cruz boasted to the magazine, quote, my dad poured himself into my senate race last year in the early months. one day i couldn't make an event so he drove out to we
we need to send barack obama back to chicago. i'd like to send him back to kenya, back to indonesia. >> according to the senior cruz, president obama is a marxist. let's watch this. >> we have to unmask this man. this is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of god. i tell you what. this is classical marxist philosophy. karl marx very clearly said it. marxism requires we destroy god because government must become god. >> senator cruz's office told mother jones quote, pastor...
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it's just we who don't like barack obama who want our guns who don't want obama care, we're the real americans. so it's not as if we have a culturally politically diverse country going on. and we go back and forth in between who wins and loses in policy fights, it's about what ask the real america. i think it has tremendously deep religious roots as well. >> i didn't start out the way i am politically. i moved from right to left. and i began even in college or younger i thought we do need social security. everybody can't end up on welfare because they didn't have enough real savings out of their work. you need a program to get people to save. and you need medicare for people who don't have health. nobody could pay the health care costs these days on their own. and you need civil rights. you can't wait for the southern states to agree 3/4 of the states. there had to be measures to move society ahead. that's when i started thinking through the libertarianism as a kid. but when cruz offers this libertarianism for kids like we don't really need social security or medicare. we don't need
it's just we who don't like barack obama who want our guns who don't want obama care, we're the real americans. so it's not as if we have a culturally politically diverse country going on. and we go back and forth in between who wins and loses in policy fights, it's about what ask the real america. i think it has tremendously deep religious roots as well. >> i didn't start out the way i am politically. i moved from right to left. and i began even in college or younger i thought we do need...
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it was barack obama running against john mccain. white voters went for the republican by this huge margin. this does not mean that 47% of white people voted republican in texas. it means that white people voted for john mccain by a 47-point margin. black voters picked the democratic candidate for president by a 96-point margin. the black vote in 2008 in texas was 98-2 for barack obama. for latinos it was a similar huge margin for the democrats. the democratic ticket did better than the republican ticket among latino voters in 2008 by a margin of 28 points. there is just a stark, stark racial divide in the voting patterns in texas. again, this is the '08 presidential race. i would show you the 2012 presidential numbers, too, but, weirdly, texas did not get exit polled in 2012, some sort of cost-saving measure or something, so there aren't 2012 numbers. but you can see between 2008 and 2010, there is a consistency over time. in the last governors race in texas, in 2010, there was also a disparity in income. households making over $50,
it was barack obama running against john mccain. white voters went for the republican by this huge margin. this does not mean that 47% of white people voted republican in texas. it means that white people voted for john mccain by a 47-point margin. black voters picked the democratic candidate for president by a 96-point margin. the black vote in 2008 in texas was 98-2 for barack obama. for latinos it was a similar huge margin for the democrats. the democratic ticket did better than the...